Does Microsoft Need China?

angkor writes "Does Microsoft Need China? Interesting article from CFO.com's perspective on MS pricing strategies in the developing world: 'Put another way, Microsoft is relying on current pricing and a goodly portion of the world's tech growth to sustain its 31 percent net profit margins. But an increasing portion of global tech growth will come from Asia's burgeoning economies. And it's precisely in Asia--with China in the lead--that pressure to alter the uniform pricing structure for its software is the strongest in the world...'"

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Will countries who've adopted Linux need Microsoft

[ylikone]

That is the real question here. Long live Linux!

Re:OT: Obtaining ModPoints

[Mateito]

Every time I am "eligible" to metamoderate, there's a little disclaimer that "metamoderators are more likely to receive mod points".

I metamoderate every couple of days, I usually agree with the interesting, informative, underrated and funny mods, and agree with maybe half the troll, redundant and offtopics, because about 1/2 the time it appears that people mod this way because they don't agree with what somebody is saying, or because they are too shit-thick to understand an obvious joke.

I'm guessing that most people metamoderate by clicking "yes yes yes yes" and I don't get mod points because my metamoderation doesn't agree with the majority.

Of course, it could be that I don't have high enough karma or something :=)